Announcements

NCCIH Clinical Digest: Complementary and Integrative Health for Older Adults

Many older adults are turning to complementary and integrative health approaches, often as a reflection of a healthy self-empowered approach to well-being. Natural products often sold as dietary supplements are frequently used by many older people for various reasons despite safety concerns or a lack of evidence to support their use. Although there is a widespread public perception that the botanical and traditional agents included in dietary supplements can be viewed as safe, these products can contain pharmacologically active compounds and have the associated dangers.

RFI: Soliciting Input for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health’s New Strategic Plan - Responses will be accepted until May 18, 2015.

NIH recently announced the launch of a new Web portal on rigor and reproducibility - with so much news highlighting the importance of unbiased experiments and reproducible results, NIH created this portal to serve as a resource on NIH efforts under way to enhance rigor and reproducibility in scientific research. View the portal:http://www.nih.gov/science/reproducibility/index.htm.

New Pain Page! Information for Consumers, Health Professionals, and Researchers

Resources for Researchers

New Funding Opportunities:
-Administrative Supplements for Common Basic Sociobehavioral Mechanisms and Processes that Facilitate or Impede Self-Management of Chronic Conditions (Admin Supp) (NOT-OD-15-094)

All Grants and Funding

Upcoming Events

Twitter Chat on Mind and Body Approaches and Older Adults
Date: April 29, 2015

Liver Injury from Herbal and Dietary Supplements Workshop
Date: May 4, 2015
Location: Lister Hill Auditorium, NIH Campus

The Changing Landscape of Brainstem Modulation of Chronic Pain: What Goes Up Must Come Down
Date: May 5, 2015
Speaker: Donna Hammond, Ph.D.

When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making
Date: May 11, 2015
Location: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, NIH Campus; Bethesda, MD Videocast: The lecture will be streamed live online at videocast.nih.gov.

National SBIR/STTR Conference
Date: June 15, 2015
Location: Gaylord Hotel and Conference Center, Washington DC National Harbor